I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDSI read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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